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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

San Felipe de Austin, Texas

Stephen F Austin brought 300 Americans to Texas to settle a Spanish land grant obtained by his father, Moses Austin. My great, great, great.......grandfather was one of those 300. Rather, ironic that I end up in Texas almost 200 years later.

He went back to Missouri where he had another land grant. It wasn't until 100 years later that my great grandfather, my grandfather and great uncle proved up the land again. The is an interesting story to share another time.

Your people were the Old 300?! So cool. I grew up in Austin, and LOVE Texas history. My father was a Texas history nut, and we spent an amazing amount of town driving around to historical markers. Thanks for the history.